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Milarite

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Milarite

Robert Whitmore collection

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Description
Locality: 
Moat Mountain, Hale's Location, Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.4 × 4.4 × 2.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with a vug in smoky quartz and epidote hosting a small area of tiny prisms of milarite. Very, very rare at this locality and collected by Robert Whitmore in 1961. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Milarite

Formula: 
K2Ca4Al2Be4Si24O60·H2O
Strunz: 
9.CM.05
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Giuv Valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Vorderrhein Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden), Switzerland

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